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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    Image of SiddhiSextus SiddhiSextus
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    For confirmation that gaydar is not even a little bit dead, see the studies by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady, the most recent of which (to my knowledge) appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2008. There's a whole series of these studies in which the researchers demonstrate that people can judge sexual orientation, with better than chance accuracy, not only from photographs of whole faces but also from individual facial features. Given that the researchers controlled for obvious characteristics like makeup and jewelry, and given that participants could judge sexual orientation from just seeing someone's mouth, I'm betting these journalists either don't know how to use databases like PsycInfo or don't want to have the premise of their stories disrupted by the actual evidence. There's a saying, "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'," and I think that gets tragically overlooked.
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    Let me get this "straight", heterosexual men are no longer barbarians and gay men can't be counted on to conform to strict stereotypes and Danica Lo is confused. I suggest she take less stock in superficial clues and concentrate on a dude's body language. No matter how much someone might attempt to mask his true sexual orientation, his body language will betray him. You can usually tell if somebody is attracted when you look into their eyes. There's this old technique called "flirting" that is usually a dead giveaway. If all else fails, maybe she should grab his crotch for erection clarification. Now that would be service-y.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    Gaydar is alive and well. Us with well-honed gaydar can tell by looking in someone's eyes.
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    08/11/09

    @BenderingTimeV2: I don't think that's gaydar, really.
    Most straight guys are not going to let other guys look deeply into their eyes for very long.
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    Image of Astroblack Astroblack
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    There's still an underlying presumption here that groomed and manicured = gay. If there's been any blurring of the lines I'd think it comes from the opposite direction as well. Bears, gay cops and firefighters, and gay athletes have disrupted simplistic notions of what gay "looks like" or "acts like." The underlying assumption in this article and in these comments is still that pretty boy = gay which does not hold water with me at all. By the way, "straight" guys who are in the closet LOVE this kind of stereotyping because it keeps the attention off of them.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    Personally, I prefer it when total strangers ask if I'm an angel, because they think they've died and gone to heaven. Or try to guess my weight, with their hands.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    This has become so confusing I can't even tell if I'm gay or not. I have a tag with my sexual orientation sewn into my underwear to remind myself.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    08/11/09

    @lionboy: But if somebody's already taking off your pants, hasn't the decision been made before you get to the tag?
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    08/11/09

    @Mount_Prion: Maybe we should just check everyone's tag whenever we walk into a new place. It works for dogs.
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    08/11/09

    @Beau Nerd:
    I had noticed that about dogs but I never really knew until now that it was doggie gaydar at work.
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    08/11/09

    @Beau Nerd:
    It's dog owners who check the tags... The dogs themselves sniff each others' butts and ears. Which come to think of it, is not a bad way to answer this question for people.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    I'm pinning all of my hopes about Alexander Skarsgard on this phenomenon.
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    08/11/09

    In reply to Gaydar is Dead
    And forget about vocal inflection. Sometimes it's hard to tell tell if a guy is gay or from California.
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